To Build A Fire, By Jack London

In “To Build a Fire,” Jack London presents the story of a man against nature as he tries to survive in the harsh winter of the Yukon in the early 1900’s. He begins a nine-hour hike through, temperatures as low as -75 degrees Fahrenheit, and he plans to meet up with friends in the area. With him is a local husky, with whom he has little companionship. The narrator builds a fire to warm himself. However, as the fire starts to reach a good warming point, snow falls and douses the fire. Finally realizing that things are getting drastic, the man starts running for the camp in desperation, with hopes of warming his body and possibly getting help. Eventually though he falls from exhaustion. While on the ground, he falls asleep and

In Jack London’s short story, “To Build a Fire,” a man attempts to reach his destination across the Yukon wilderness. The cold and wintery setting is used to create the conflict of whether the man will make it to the campsite and transitions the mood from calm and uncaring to fearful. It also manages to convey the message that overzealousness can lead to failure.

Hello, everyone I chose "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, this is a history about how our mind can deceive us, and sometimes work against us. It has moments of hope, desperation, happiness, and sadness. It's about a man, who decided to travel through the Yukon River in Canada with the old camp on Henderson Creek as his destination.

Nature is the strongest thing in this world that everyone takes for granted. It holds the power to create life, but also destroy in mere seconds. In the modern world, we try to figure out and use nature in a way that can benefit us, but not how we can benefit it. With a constant search for nature and its resources, it causes humans to less mindful of the wilderness around us and how no matter what, at the end, nature will outlive all of us. Humans think they can outsmart nature with their new technology and progress, but we also end up having to turn back to nature for help in order to survive. In Jack London’s story, To Build a Fire, we follow a man into the wilderness

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is about a man fighting against nature for his life. The story is set on the Yukon Trail in Alaska during a harsh winter. The main character has recently moved to Alaska, so this is his first experience with an Alaskan winter. Throughout the story, the man is traveling on the Yukon in bitter cold and life threatening conditions with no companion other than a dog. The story allows the reader to follow the emotions and thoughts of a man freezing to death. The detailed description of the weather conditions and the main character’s attempts of adapting to his surrounding allow the reader to better understand the dangers the main character endured.

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story. The story begins with an unnamed man that is traveling in the Yukon with a dog. It is very cold outside and he shouldn’t travel alone in this weather but he does anyway. He is said to have no imagination and thinks he is invincible. It is so cold that when the man spits it becomes frozen before it hits the ground.

Character development in the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London One of the most famous and favorite writers of American and world readers is Jack London. His unusual ability to combine adventures with narration and tell the stories of the personal growth of people, developed in severe circumstances, attracts readers' attention worldwide. The present paper is devoted to the discussion of the work To Build a Fire, written by London in 1902, and the way London develops the personality of the principal character during his adventures. Jack London spent a considerable amount of time in the Yukon searching for gold, so this was the period when London was inspired to write his classic story To Build a Fire.

Jack London, the author of To Build a Fire places his unknown man in the harshest climate almost any human could not endure. There are many conflicts that go throughout the story with nature as well as personal conflict of his own. The setting plays an important role in this short story because the way that the author describes when the man’s saliva freezes before it even touches the ground shows the reader that this is not just an everyday travel and this man is about to face a nine hour hike through the snowy world of Yukon, northwestern Canada next to Alaska. This unknown man faces his worst days that laid ahead of him not knowing what's about to happen, how his thought process will start to change, and most importantly how he is affected

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story about a man traveling through the Alaskan Yukon to meet up with his friends for lunch. The author keeps the character nameless and refers to him only as “The Man” which is used to show a connection between humanity and nature. The story shows the hardships the man goes through to get to his destination through the Alaskan Yukon, yet unfortunately doesn’t make it. The conflict is a man versus nature theme which contrasts strong and direct relations of the hardships in nature. Throughout this analysis, I am going to explore the conflict between the man and the merciless nature he has to go through before his death.

To Build A Fire by Jack London is about a man who is trekking over the Yukon in order to reach his men in a camping ground. The man is warned by a “wise one” that traveling in such treacherous conditions is deadly. The man did not take head to the older mans warning and continued to set out on his quest. Just when the man thinks that everything is going as planned he can’t escape the enviable. Death.

As the man grows fearful and he begins to accept that his attempts to build a fire were of no use, he starts thinking through his options. Having remembered an old tale at the sight of his husky, he decides to kill the animal and defrost his hands inside of it until he is able enough to start a fire. He got a hold of the animal but not long after “he realize[s] that he [can] not kill the dog. There was no way to do it. With his helpless hands he could neither draw nor hold his sheath-knife nor throttle the animal” (London, p. 608).

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story about a man trailing off the Yukon trail. This short story has elements of naturalism. Naturalism, in literature, determines and governs human character (Naturalism). The protagonist in the story continuously disregards the cold until he faces a life-or-death situation. He disregards the freezing temperature as he believes his friends will provide his needs.

In To Build a Fire, London paints a landscape of coldness and hardship, where man must use extreme caution or be killed by the elements. Despite these brutal conditions, one simple phrase is continually repeated: “It is very cold.” This use of a casual statement when referring to a life threatening condition is an obvious characteristic of naturalist style. Furthermore, the narrator progresses through the narrative with a relative indifference in relation to the events that befall the man in the story. As the man dies freezing, it is described in the text as simply “drowsing off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.” London obviously placed a great focus on being realistic with matters concerning man’s relationship with the

The man who is in the story, unfortunately put himself into the dangerous situation. He didn’t listen to knowledgeable person’s advice. He advised that “no man should travel alone in that country after 50 below zero. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself” (London, 2016, p.72). And finally he faced his death, “Then the man dropped into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known” (London, 2016,

To build a fire is a short story written by Jack London. It is a story about an individual’s choice. The main character’s self-centeredness overcomes him, as he tries to survive the wintery weather in his travel in the Yukon Trail. He made a choice of ignoring the weather warnings, which evidenced danger in his journey. There were warnings like the absence of fellow travelers due to the cold season, but his egoism made him still embark on the journey alone, despite the warnings. The protagonist’s pride and arrogance leads to a regrettable outcome, as it leads to his downfall. The protagonist made the wrong choices because of his egotism, and arrogance and they led to his downfall. He defied nature due to his lack of logical judgment, and